Cairo cathedral bombing: President Sisi names attacker

Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has attended a state funeral for victims of an attack at Cairo’s Coptic Christian cathedral, naming the suicide bomber he said was responsible.
Mr Sisi, who has declared three days of national mourning, named Shafik Mahmoud Mohamed Mostafa, 22, as the attacker.
The bombing on Sunday killed 24 people, many of them women and children.
Mr Sisi said that three men and a woman had been arrested in connection with the attack.
Dozens more were injured in the blast in a chapel adjoining St Mark’s cathedral during a Sunday service, which Mr Sisi said caused “pain to all Egyptians”.
He used his address to urge the government to amend the country’s terrorism laws, which he said were “restricting the judicial system” in its battle to prevent such attacks in Egypt.